1. “We were fooling around in the kitchen like half an hour before we were supposed to eat and knocked over the turkey. I want to clarify that my boyfriend and I weren’t fucking on top of the turkey. We were just frisky and making out at the same table. My dad was upstairs getting ready and my mom and brother were picking up my grandma who lives close by. As things got out of hand we knocked over the turkey. And we stood there and realized we had two choices: fess up, or just, like, put the turkey back and let everyone eat floor turkey. My boyfriend figured 5 second rule was still in effect and immediately put it back and tried to rearrange all the fixings. No one noticed, and we figured letting everyone eat turkey that had been on the floor for a bit was better than ruining Thanksgiving.” — Jess, 28

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2. “I came home freshman year for the first time for Thanksgiving break. I was still dating my high school girlfriend and I went to her place Thanksgiving morning. We hadn’t seen each other in a while, things seemed good, of course we had sex. Then she got really quiet and kind of… wistful. She broke up with me pretty promptly. It turned out she was thinking of breaking up with me but she wanted to see if things still felt right once she saw me again. I guess they didn’t.” — Greg,27

3. “I had just discovered masturbating (thanks, Sex and the City!) and I was a late bloomer. I was late to the party. So I was doing it a lot. My mom walked in on me ‘basting the turkey’ right before we had to leave to go to my grandma’s house. Even though she was a ‘cool mom’ it was still an awkward car ride. I just listened to my CD player the whole time.” — Kim, 29

4. “This is actually a Black Friday story. My boyfriend and I went to a few shops that morning to check out some deals and see if we could find anything. We were in a clothing store, and actually wanted to use the changing rooms, but it was pure chaos [and most rooms were taken]. So we wound up having to share a changing room to help move things along. We were changing and got kind of frisky. We weren’t having sex but things definitely escalated from making out. A kid who was in the changing room next to us with his mom popped under the divider and yelled, “HI!” Luckily, he couldn’t really see anything from where he was, but we were mortified. We got dressed and walked out as he explained, ‘Mommy, those two people were kissing.’” — Ashley, 28

5. “As far as I know, the whole tryptophan making you sleepy isn’t real. But I did pass out on my girlfriend. It was junior year of college, and I started recently dating someone from back home that I’d known for a while. It was also the first Thanksgiving I could legally drink. I didn’t get to see her until Thanksgiving night, since she was traveling and seeing family. Obviously, we were really excited to get down to business. We were texting back and forth, and I was really excited to see her. I guess through some combination of eating and drinking too much, I slipped into a food coma and didn’t wake up until 6 AM. She was pretty mad, but we reconciled that day.” — Ryan, 28

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7. “This could have been a whole lot worse than it was. One Thanksgiving, my whole family got food poisoning. Best we can figure, we left some raw meat out somewhere and wound up preparing something else [that got contaminated with it]. It kicked in during sex with my girlfriend later that night, but luckily I made it to the bathroom before my butt exploded.” — Will, 28

8. “When I was young I walked in on my parents having sex Thanksgiving morning. I didn’t have much of an appetite that day.” — John, 27

9. “My then-boyfriend was meeting my family for the first time on Thanksgiving, which in hindsight, was a lot of pressure to put on him. I could tell he was nervous when he first showed up, so before things kicked off, I brought him back to my bedroom to help him relax. My dad walked in on me giving him a blow job. My dad was so furious he kicked him out. I had to spend an awkward Thanksgiving dinner with my extended family, and my boyfriend had to drive 45 minutes home and explain to his family why they needed to put out another place-setting.” — Rachel, 28

10. “I was an eyewitness to what is almost definitely someone else’s Thanksgiving horror story. I can’t imagine this couple has ever had a worse sexual experience. Once upon a time I worked at a now-defunct big box store that had Black Friday deals. You know, the kind of place where people line up in the cold for hours. I was working at the customer service counter — which had a decent view of the public restrooms — and a good chunk of customers obviously wanted to empty their bladders before doing their 6 AM shopping. About four minutes after we open the doors, I heard a few screams coming from over by the bathrooms. A man and woman run out and their pants are like, three-quarters of the way up, and their feet are covered in what looks like mud, but I soon realize it's shit. And they’re tracking it all around the store and freaking out. As best as I could gather, they for some reason decided to have a quickie in the women’s restroom. Here's what happened: another customer apparently really had to poop but didn’t want to lose her spot in line, and when the time came she sprinted to the bathrooms. I guess she went into the stall next to this couple, and either didn’t notice what was happening next to her or didn’t care because she had to go so bad. I’m not sure how she wound up pooping on the floor. I don’t know if it was that violent or it came out early or what. I feel so bad for the janitor.” — Charlie, 29

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